Automatic merchandising machine operators · California

First Class Vending

Bell Gardens, CA · ~230 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Class Vending runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automatic merchandising machine operators workplace, earning a grade F.

First Class Vending: 7.7 TCR = 225% of Automatic merchandising machine operators BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Class Vending safety composite

First Class Vending scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

First Class Vending: 7.9 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2023

First Class Vending's TCR rose 1.3 from 7.9 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454210 · Bell Gardens, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 225% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #9/21
  • PHOTO Accent Food Services…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~230 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Accent Food Services Houston (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Class Vending in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows First Class Vending averages 7.7 TCR (225% of the Automatic merchandising machine operators BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

First Class Vending TCR series: 2017=7.9 · 2019=6 · 2023=9.1 · BLS 3.4

Where First Class Vending falls in its industry

311 Automatic merchandising machin establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 21 Automatic merchandising machin employers in California.

First Class Vending (230 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 7.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate First Class Vending
First Class Vending (230 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 7.1

First Class Vending has more employees than the Automatic merchandising machine operator median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.1. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 9.1 8.2 19 0 0
2019 6.0 6.0 15 0 0
2017 7.9 6.7 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454210 · CA · Bell Gardens

311 Automatic merchandising machine operators employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 24 employers in Bell Gardens, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Accent Food Services Houston 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORCROSS, GA BRANCH 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Servomation Refreshments, Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TREAT AMERICA SOUTH REGION OFFICE 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE BETTERAVIA FARMS 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amezcua Ag Inc 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREEN AG MANAGEMENT, LLC 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tierra Blanca FLC, Inc 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Bicycle Hotel and Casino 1,369 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkwest Bicycle Casino 1,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR 054529-LOS ANGELES NDC 1,155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkhouse Tire, Inc. 471 FTE
NAT-TCR Nashoba Valley Medical Center 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lanco Trucking, Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR I C Reed and Sons Inc 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Korfhage Landscape & Designs 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 104290 - Seminole Combined-Cycle Facility 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waymo Chandler 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ascension Genesys Health Club 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unico, LLC 230 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.